James Comey

President Trump was right to impugn the
FBI
and U.S. intelligence in the Helsinki Summit news conference.

In January 2017 first heard that an intelligence briefing to the president included a Russian dossier of salacious, unverified information. I was puzzled. FBI director
James Comey
did not know if the allegations were true, but he still included the dossier in a presidential classified briefing? Legendary Watergate reporter Bob Woodward called the dossier "garbage." Calling the Russian dossier "intelligence" was beyond the pale.

Nonetheless, with the help of Trump-hating senior FBI agents, the anti-Trump Russian witch hunt began. How...

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